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Story: Ngāpuhi

Manu aute (kite)

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Manu aute

Uenuku and Kaharau, Rāhiri’s warring sons, attached their rope to a kite, and flew it. The path of the kite became the boundary between the Hokianga lands of Kaharau’s descendants and the Taumārere lands of Uenuku’s people.

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Rāwiri Taonui, Ngāpuhi – Ancestors, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/object/403/manu-aute-kite (accessed 4 June 2026).

Story by Rāwiri Taonui, published 4 March 2009, updated 1 March 2017.